Bible Study: SANCTIFY

By: Evangelist W.C. “Dub” Dellinger - Age 93

As I move around and talk to church members, I have to ask this question, “Do pastors preach the sanctified message on the Holy Ghost Baptism?” I have had people ask what does that mean?
Some pastors do not realize that they are leaving out the very thing that it takes to get to heaven. You can go to the corner store and buy many books to preach from but never help a member of your congregation into heaven. Some say to never use the word Holy Ghost, but use Holy Spirit. Now I ask you to show me how you are going to get your people holy and leave out the Holy Ghost.
When Brother Paul writes in Hebrews 12:14, it says follow peace with all men, and Holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord. Holiness follows after being born again - being sent forth through the Holy Ghost. Brother John, in First John 2:20, says but ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. First John 21:1 - I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth. The Holy Ghost will never lie to you and will never be in part, always complete the Teacher that Jesus left here to do HIS work, That is why the Holy Ghost is always spoken of as a person. For pastors who are anti-Holy Ghost, you have have been led wrong just like the Disciples without the Holy Ghost Baptism.
Jesus, in Luke 24:49 said “and behold I send the promise of my Father upon you Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endured with power from on high.” And in Acts 2; “where the power came on them by the Holy Ghost”, the Holy Ghost is a person, always spoken of as a he.” Actually you won’t wander far if you look at the Holy Ghost, as the Y-gene of Jesus Christ. After all He was a baby boy. And the angel said that is conceived in you is of not by the Holy Ghost. Jesus was a living Holy Ghost at work in the womb. That is how He anointed John Baptist with the Holy Ghost and Him not yet born of a woman. That gave John the Baptist the power to baptize them in the name of Jesus only and their sins were forgiven. God saw fit to Sanctify Jeremiah 1:5 before He was born of woman. The real meaning of sanctify is to be set aside for a purpose. In the Old Testament it was done by God, and in the New Testament, it is handled by Jesus. For some reason, I just don’t know why the word sanctify is so troublesome. It is a good word and when it is used, it comes alive and cleanses the person who is sanctified for a purpose of our Lord. Watch what you hear and be careful what you read.